Sarah Palin

WASHINGTON -- Out with Sarah. In with The Donald.
President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party's search for a challenger seems stranger by the day.
GOP celebrities like Sarah Palin aren't getting much buzz. Mainstream candidates like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty aren't getting much traction. It's people once considered highly unlikely to compete seriously for the party's nomination who are creating big stirs in early voting states, a reflection of an unformed and uncertain GOP presidential field.
Republican activists in Iowa, New H...

A new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal.
Results were announced Thursday by Public Policy Polling, a polling firm based in North Carolina. The company asked 400 Republican primary voters about their preferences for candidates for state and national offices, as well as their views on interracial marriage.
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In Mississippi, 46 percent of GOP primary voters think interracial marriage should be illegal,...

Dick Cheney's been out of government for more than two years, but his political afterlife shows no signs of ending: HBO plans a miniseries on the famously abrasive former vice president.
CNN reports that the project will be based on the "Frontline" documentary about Cheney, "The Dark Side," along with the Barton Gellman book, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency."
No word from HBO on when the series will air or who will star, but it is expected to follow the former Wyoming congressman and defense secretary from his early years in the Nixon administration to his time as George W. Bush's opinio...

Sarah Palin's quick trip to India and Israel wraps up Monday when she meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Sunday, the former Alaska governor and possible 2012 presidential candidate visited the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in the Holy Land.
"I'm very thankful to know that the Israeli and American link will grow in strength as we seek peace along with you," Palin told reporters afterward. In a statement upon her arrival, the Republican firebrand said, "As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanya...

JERUSALEM -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in Israel on a trip that has raised speculation she is honing her foreign policy credentials ahead of a run for the U.S. presidency next year.
Palin arrived in Israel Sunday afternoon after a stop in India. Palin, who was John McCain's running mate in his failed 2008 campaign for president, rarely travels abroad and has been criticized for her weak foreign policy record.
Palin did not comment to Israeli reporters at the airport and was whisked away in a white van.
Although the trip is private, she is to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...

NEW DELHI -- U.S. politician Sarah Palin stressed the importance of America's ties with India, saying they were based on the shared values of freedom and free-market capitalism, while sounding a warning note on China's rise during a speech Saturday in New Delhi.
The visit to India is a rare foreign venture for the ex-Alaska governor and reality TV star, who was John McCain's running mate in his failed 2008 campaign for president. The trip, which also includes a stop in Israel, is raising speculation Palin wants to burnish her foreign policy credentials ahead of a possible 2012 presidential ru...

Tina Fey may be the most famous Sarah Palin impersonator, but the "30 Rock" star has some new competition.
Julianne Moore has been tapped to portray Palin in HBO's upcoming film about the 2008 presidential race, "Game Change."
The casting choice has provoked some surprisingly passionate responses.
Says the Los Angeles Times' Nardine Saad:
It's an interesting twist, casting an Oscar-nominated actress to play a politico who until recently was making a name for herself as a reality TV star. It's almost flattering that news that she'll be played by the classy redhead (Moore) broke soon aft...